| 100% | PROFESSORPLUM | 13 | He might have done it with the candlestick in the study |
| 45% | MENU | 4 | It may have an insert with the daily specials |
| 44% | TOWN | 4 | It may have a square in the middle |
| 44% | TENT | 4 | It may have a mess in the Army |
| 43% | LEAKED | 6 | What the CIA's Joshua Adam Schulte did with documents he had access to in March 2016 |
| 42% | REPRINTS | 8 | You may have had issues with them in the past |
| 42% | DEVIL | 5 | He "made me do it," with "the" [4] |
| 42% | RESTART | 7 | Begin from the beginning, or what a person might do when they hit a creative block, and a word with 16a hidden in it |
| 41% | HEAR | 4 | People in the back may not do it |
| 41% | LES | 3 | Nickname that might have "-ley" or "-ter" after it in the full version |
| 40% | MAE | 3 | West with the autobiography "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It" |
| 40% | CAT | 3 | Pet that might clean itself with its leg in the air |
| 39% | COUGHEDUPTHEDOE | 15 | What the mountain lion did with the whitetail stuck in its throat? |
| 38% | INTHISECONOMY | 13 | Jokey question in response to a statement that may have nothing to do with money |
| 38% | WATER | 5 | With 7-Across, it might be the tallest structure in a small town |
| 37% | STANLEE | 7 | He had a cameo in The Avengers with the line "Superheroes in New York? Give me a break!" |
| 37% | RAINBOW | 7 | "Over the ___," Judy Garland song that has a weather phenomenon with seven colors in its title |
| 37% | HUMAN | 5 | With 2-Down, it has roughly tripled in size since the time of australopithecines |
| 37% | FIFTH | 5 | It may be taken in court, with "the" |
| 37% | BIRD | 4 | It may be flipped in anger, with "the" |
| 37% | APRON | 5 | Garment that may say "I love cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food" |
| 37% | SWUM | 4 | Has done laps in the pool |
| 36% | ARGOHIPS | 8 | *What Elvis might have called his swiveling body parts if he acted in the 2012 Best Picture winner? |
| 36% | AFL | 3 | It merged with the CIO in 1955 |
| 36% | CIO | 3 | It merged with the AFL in 1955 |
| 36% | ABA | 3 | It merged with the NBA in 1976 |
| 36% | CLUE | 4 | Game where the solution might be "Miss Scarlet with the wrench in the lounge" |
| 36% | LSD | 3 | Steve Jobs called it "one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life" |
| 36% | AWED | 4 | How you may have felt when SpaceX made its first recovery of the Falcon 9 rocket stage in 2015 |
| 36% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | Actress who plays Tina Turner in the music biopic "What's Love Got to Do with It" (2 wds.) |